st: test stored estimates (was "Including population mean in svymean by subpops")

["levinsar" <levinsona@amc.org>]

Colleagues,
I stored results from two separate models and tried without success to test
equality of parameters across the two result-sets. Here's the sequence:

    svymean varname1
    est store A
    svymean varname2
    est store B
    est for * (or _all) : test [varname1]x = [varname2]y

For the post-estimation command, I also tried each of the following:

    test A = B
    test [A] = [B]
    test [A=B], common

In each case, the return said the query to one set of estimates failed in
the other set of estimates -- which, of course, is true, but I thought from
the manual that this wouldn't be a program-stopper. I tried with non-survey
commands (e.g., logit) and got the same results. Help?
arnold

Arnold H. Levinson, PhD
Associate Scientist
Center for Research Methodology and Biometrics
AMC Cancer Research Center
303.777.8801
fax 303.239.3394
levinsona@amc.org
Assistant Professor
Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Arnold.Levinson@uchsc.edu

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